Coolant Service for my Camry Hybrid problem

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05-04-2013, 04:26 PM

Ron AKA

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Re: Coolant Service for my Camry Hybrid problem

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Originally Posted by ptung07

Thanks everyone! This forum is great.

From this point on, should I be doing a drain/fill of the coolant every 100,000 miles because it is still the Toyota Super Long Life Coolant? In addition, how long/many miles should I also be doing the drain/fill of the transaxle ATF since I also just changed it?

Toyota says the following for the 2012 TCH coolant circuits:

"Initial replacement for engine coolant is at 100,000 miles/120 months and for inverter coolant initial replacement is at 150,000 miles/180 months. Replace every 50,000 miles/60 months thereafter."

I think they are allowing for the potential that a service replacement is not a complete replacement.

On the transaxle, I don't recall Toyota recommends that any replacement of the fluid is necessary. So, it would be your call.

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12-21-2021, 04:28 AM

FLHybrid

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Re: Coolant Service for my Camry Hybrid problem

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Originally Posted by GeorgiaHybrid

Glad we could help out. The problem you encountered is one of the main reasons I invested in a vacuum fill for my cooling systems. It is not real bad with the engine in the Camry but some of the GM cars can be a bear to bleed.

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12-21-2021, 04:38 AM

FLHybrid

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Re: Coolant Service for my Camry Hybrid problem

For GerogiaHybrid: I too have a vacuum system I use for my 2006 Prius for the inverter and radiator coolant (done many times, now has 400,000 miles). I now have a 2018 Camry Hybrid that has reached 100,000 miles for the radiator coolant change. Instead of Techstream, putting the car in maintenance mode, etc., I suppose just using the vacuum for both the inverter and radiator should suffice, yes?? It's so simple and of all the coolant replacements I have done with the Prius I have never had a problem and the fluid volume drained always matched fluid replaced.